Geekin' Outdoors
Outdoor Geekin'...
Man-o-man... it was a hot one in the Seattle area today. My thermometer says it got up to 94-degrees, and that's HOT for Seattle. It was still warm in the house when I got up this morning, so I sat out on the deck for my morning coffee. Ha... it wasn't long before my laptop 'followed' me outside. As it began to warm up, I actually brought a fan outside. Works great!
Actually, I got quite alot done today. I've been working on my 68HCS12 microcontroller for a week or so now and am making some great progress on learning all about this new micro. Today I finally figured out how to implement interrupts! My plan is to use an interrupt-driven interface to read the encoder on a DC servo motor. I left the servo at work,so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to try it out.
I also figured out the timings for writing delay loops. In fact, I can use the internal timer to issue an interrupt when it times out. My code tested out perfectly for 0.25ms up to 500ms... COOL!
But wait! There's MORE! I worked on some JavaScript for Steel Turman, who runs another blog that I frequent regularly. He's got a Flash movie in his header that has a lot of sound. Unfortunately, every time you return to the home page... you hear the sounds again and it gets pretty annoying.
He was wondering if there was a way to just play the Flash movie once per visit. It sounded good and challenging,so I gave it a try. After lots o' JavaScript coding, here's what I came up with. Now the challenge is to interface it into TypePad!
It was a pretty good day!
And here I thought you were on vacation.
Man, I've been in Jet City when it gets that hot.
Did not like it.
M U G G Y.
Posted by: Steel | Jul 9, 2006 7:31:44 AM
I agree Steel... I'm usually OK as long as it stays in the low to mid 80's or below around here. Any hotter than that? No thanks!
Posted by: Jimmy the Geek | Jul 16, 2006 11:12:09 AM